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POWERPOINT
· The Art of PowerPoint-ing Blog – Embedding Video
o This blog shares tips, techniques, and shortcuts for advanced use of PowerPoint. With over 150 posts, this blog provides a great deal of information presented in an easy to understand way.

· PowerPoint Heaven – The Power to Animate
o PowerPoint Heaven is a PowerPoint entertainment portal for PowerPoint animations, games, artworks, showcases, animation templates and tutorials. The focus of this site is to maximize the use of Microsoft PowerPoint and go beyond its capability. Our goal is to show users that PowerPoint is not simply a presentation tool, but is also capable on leveraging into other areas such as creating games, artworks and animations. (quoted)
· Indezine – PowerPoint Templates (must register)
o PowerPoint templates are available here as well as high quality information on the tool and the graphics design industry’s use of it.
· PowerPoint Games
o This game template site created by the Watson School of Education University of North Carolina Wilmington supplies some ingenious PowerPoint, Word, and Excel Games as well as some PowerPoint timers.
· PowerPoint Game Templates
o These templates for a game and a questions PowerPoint are great for beginning to build your own PowerPoint.
· How to Insert A PowerPoint Movie
o A very good visual way to bring PowerPoint
· How to Format an Inserted PowerPoint Movie
o This online video provides a good overview of how to make your inserted movie more aesthetically pleasing.
· Internet Public Library
o This is a partnership of libraries and institutions that have combined resources and shared them in one location.
· Studysphere – Ecology Websites
o StudySphere provides fast, easy and free access to a wide variety of research-quality child-safe websites organized for education online from home, school, study abroad and home school. StudySphere’s goal is to help students, teachers, librarians, and other researchers find both highly targeted and closely related information quickly.
· Classroom Excel Resources
o Numerous guides, lesson plans, and activities that are useful for teachers at all grade levels.
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SMARTBOARD
· Engaging Learners the SMARTboard Way (Eduscapes)
o A lengthy, well-organized list of SMARTboard lessons and activities.
· SMART Technologies, Inc.
o The parent company for SMARTboards. A great place to find the Notebook software (download for free) and examples of SMART presentations.
· Invention Playhouse (Smithsonian)
o Invention at Play at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. A great online tool and connections to early childhood research.
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WEBQUEST RESOURCES
· Weather WebQuest
o This weather WebQuest is geared for fifth graders. Students investigate weather, climate, cloud types, and access weather data from around the country.
· WebQuest.org
o The first sets of WebQuests created by Bernie Dodge can be found here.
· QuestGarden.com
o This site provides great resources for finding, revising, and creating WebQuests in a way that is easy and functional.
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